Full Coverage: Downsizing & Layoffs
- Citigroup to Cut About 1,000 Jobs
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri, Feb 11, 2005
- Citigroup Expected to Cut 1,000 Jobs
AP via Yahoo! News - Fri, Feb 11, 2005
- Krispy Kreme Cutting 125 Workers
AP via Yahoo! News - Wed, Feb 09, 2005
- Lockheed to Cut Jobs if Bush Budget OK'd
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon, Feb 07, 2005
- Telegraph newspapers axe 90 jobs
at BBC - Fri, Feb 04, 2005
- When a Plant Closes, Job Agency Steps In
at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Mon, Jan 24, 2005
- For Detroit, layoffs are just a start
at Detroit Free Press - Thu, Jan 13, 2005
- Shaking the Out-of-Work Blues
at Fortune - Tue, Apr 13, 2004
- The Politics Of Outsourcing
at Forbes - Wed, Feb 18, 2004
- A Bittersweet End For N.Y. Sugar Plant
at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Thu, Jan 29, 2004
- Laid-Off Workers Have to Settle for Less
at ABCNEWS.com - Fri, Jan 09, 2004
- Help all laid-off workers
at Des Moines Register - Tue, May 18, 2004
- My pink slip had a silver lining
at Christian Science Monitor - Wed, Mar 10, 2004
- Help the Jobless
at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) - Mon, Dec 08, 2003
- Companies repeat mistake of cutting investment in workers
at USATODAY.com - Tue, Nov 04, 2003
- Underemployed: a euphemism for violent lifestyle change
at Christian Science Monitor - Tue, Sep 30, 2003
- Truth on Tour
at Mother Jones - Mon, Sep 22, 2003
- Layoff, Retraining and Reemployment
- site has information for individuals affected by layoffs, and for employers that layoff employees. Alternately, a toll-free line, 1-877-US-2JOBS, is available for those affected. From the U.S. Department of Labor.
- CareerOneStop
- information on job opportunities and employment assistance services in your community. Sponsored by the Department of Labor.
- Mass Layoff Statistics
- from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Unemployment State-by-State
- statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, via CNN/Money.
- Best Practices in Downsizing
- federally sponsored report on the history of the practice, and how it it can be best implemented if necessary.
- Downsizing
- senior thesis tracing the origins of the corporate practice also known as rightsizing, or restructuring. Written by Jonathan Lurie.